Biography: literary
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Biography: literary
Paperback. The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary and historical contexts: what Shakespeare read, who he worked with as an author and an actor, and how these various collaborations may have affected his writing. Series: Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies. Num Pages: 510 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: BGL; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 510
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118281529
- ISBN
- 9781118281529
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.74
€ 35.74
Hardback. The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary and historical contexts: what Shakespeare read, who he worked with as an author and an actor, and how these various collaborations may have affected his writing. Series: Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies. Num Pages: 512 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSGS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 980.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631207849
- ISBN
- 9780631207849
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.79
€ 104.79
Hardback. The Life of Sharatchandra Chatopadhyay presents a historical critical assessment of the novelist's upbringing and the experiences that informed his work. The author exposes Sharatchandra's innate conservative worldview and his romantic platonic concept of human sexuality that informs all his love stories. Num Pages: 180 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2BM; BGL; DSB; HBJF; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611475074
- ISBN
- 9781611475074
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.26
€ 120.26
Paperback. By the time Herzog was published in 1964, Saul Bellow was probably the most acclaimed novelist in America. This book traces Bellow's life away from the desk, as polemicist, teacher, husband, father and lover. It also spans the period from Bellow's birth in 1915 to the publication of Herzog in 1964. Num Pages: 832 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 233 x 55. Weight in Grams: 1120.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099520931
- ISBN
- 9780099520931
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.01
€ 27.99
€ 21.01
Paperback. A biography of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature. Editor(s): Womersley, David. Num Pages: 1312 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; CFM; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 135 x 57. Weight in Grams: 1022.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 1312
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140436624
- ISBN
- 9780140436624
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 22.82
€ 33.99
€ 22.82
Hardback. The Life of Robert Frost presents a unique and rich approach to the poet that includes original genealogical research concerning Frost s ancestors, and a demonstration of how mental illness plagued the Frost family and heavily influenced Frost s poetry. Series: Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470658529
- ISBN
- 9780470658529
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.72
€ 89.72
Paperback. Tells the story of the Tibetan people. This title offers an introduction to Tibetan Buddhism. It presents a quest for purification and buddhahood in a single lifetime, tracing the path of a great sinner who became a great saint. Translator(s): Quintman, Andrew. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143106227
- ISBN
- 9780143106227
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.85
€ 15.99
€ 11.85
Paperback. Editor(s): King, Brendan. Num Pages: 580 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 197 x 40. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Publisher
- Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 580
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Dedalus Ed. /
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903517437
- ISBN
- 9781903517437
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.52
€ 19.99
€ 18.52
Paperback. The life story of the Victorian novelist George Eliot is as dramatic and complex as her best plots. This new assessment of her life and work combines recent biographical research with penetrating literary criticism, resulting in revealing new interpretations of her literary work. Series: Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 231 x 14. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118917671
- ISBN
- 9781118917671
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.02
€ 42.02
Paperback. The Life of Daniel Defoe examines the entire range of Defoe's writing in the context of what is known about his life and opinions. * A critical study of the writing of Daniel Defoe. * Features extended and detailed commentaries on Defoe's political and religious journalism, as well as on his narrative fictions. Series: Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 189 x 22. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119045304
- ISBN
- 9781119045304
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.50
€ 39.50
Paperback. Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. This edition is based on the Third Edition of 1857, revised by Gaskell and collated with the manuscript and the previous two editions, as well as with Charlotte Bronte's letters, offering fuller information about the process of composition than any previous edition. Editor(s): Easson, Angus. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 624
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199554768
- ISBN
- 9780199554768
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.36
€ 16.99
€ 13.36
Paperback. A classic of English biography as well as the portrait of a very remarkable woman and an eminently distinguished literary figure. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. .
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848681651
- ISBN
- 9781848681651
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.77
€ 26.77
Paperback. A biography of Charlotte that recounts Charlotte Bronte's life from her isolated childhood, through her years as a writer who had 'foreseen the single life' for herself, to her marriage at thirty-eight and death less than a year later. Editor(s): Jay, Elisabeth. Num Pages: 544 pages, facsim., port. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140434934
- ISBN
- 9780140434934
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Hardcover. Num Pages: 510 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 148 x 35. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Peter Owen Publishers United Kingdom
- Edition
- First
- Number of pages
- 510
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780720613179
- ISBN
- 9780720613179
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 9.47
€ 9.47
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, 10 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 223 x 15. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Taylor Trade Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781589799592
- ISBN
- 9781589799592
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.90
€ 17.99
€ 16.90
Hardback. Despairing of his volatile, unstable wife, T S Eliot, at 44, resolves to put an end to the torture of his eighteen-year marriage. He breaks free from September 1932 by becoming Norton Lecturer at Harvard. Editor(s): Haffenden, John. Series: Letters of T. S. Eliot. Num Pages: 960 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 960
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571316342
- ISBN
- 9780571316342
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.43€ 41.05
€ 59.43
€ 41.05
Hardback. Features letters between Eliot and his associates, family and friends - his correspondents range from the Archbishop of York and the American philosopher Paul Elmer More to the writers Virginia Woolf, and Ralph Hodgson - that shows the ways in which his Anglo-Catholic convictions could, at times, prove a self-chastising and even alienating force. Series: Letters of T. S. Eliot. Num Pages: 928 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; BJ; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 166 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1230.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571316328
- ISBN
- 9780571316328
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.43€ 41.25
€ 59.43
€ 41.25
Hardback. Editor(s): Terhune, Alfred McKinley; Terhune, Annabelle Burdick. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 688 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; BGLA; BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1114.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 688
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691643199
- ISBN
- 9780691643199
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 332.12
€ 332.12
Hardback. Editor(s): Terhune, Alfred McKinley; Terhune, Annabelle Burdick. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 672 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1114.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 672
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691643472
- ISBN
- 9780691643472
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 287.65€ 212.03
€ 287.65
€ 212.03
Paperback. Series: Neversink. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Publisher
- Melville House Publishing United States
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781935554486
- ISBN
- 9781935554486
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.10
€ 19.99
€ 19.10
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, YES. BIC Classification: BGL; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 26 x 151 x 232. Weight in Grams: 479. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Ireland
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0002172
- ISBN
- 9780340752395
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. In The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author of Hiding Man (a New Yorker and New York Times Notable book) and Just One Catch, delves deep into the life of distinguished American author and journalist Joan Didion in this, the first printed biography published about her life. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 2AB; 3JJ; 3JM; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 210 x 35. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Publisher
- St Martin´s Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781250105943
- ISBN
- 9781250105943
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 28.36
€ 34.99
€ 28.36
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Arcade Publishing
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781628725339
- ISBN
- 9781628725339
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.27
€ 17.99
€ 17.27
Paperback. Aims to unearth the life story of the creator of "The Leopard", one of the novels of the twentieth century. This book stands as a meditation on what it is that makes a writer. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 2ADT; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publisher
- Eland Books
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780955010514
- ISBN
- 9780955010514
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.04
€ 18.99
€ 14.04